Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben
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Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben Fürstentum Anhalt-Aschersleben | |||||||||
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| 1252–1315 | |||||||||
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.svg) Map of Anhalt in 1259. Anhalt-Aschersleben is in brown. | |||||||||
| Status | Principality | ||||||||
| Capital | Aschersleben | ||||||||
| Common languages | East Central German | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 1252–67 | Henry II | ||||||||
• 1267–1304 | Otto I | ||||||||
• 1267–83 | (with Henry III) | ||||||||
• 1304–15 | Otto II | ||||||||
| Historical era | Halberstadt | 1315 | |||||||
• Passed to Brandenburg on secularisation of bishopric | 1648 | ||||||||
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Anhalt-Aschersleben was a short-lived
principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania with its residence at Aschersleben in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision from the Principality of Anhalt
from 1252 to 1315.
History
It was created when the Anhalt territory was divided among the sons of Prince
Henry I into the Principalities of Anhalt-Aschersleben, Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Zerbst in 1252. Prince Henry II the Fat, the eldest son of Henry I,[1] had been co-ruler of his father since 1244. In the course of the partition he chose the Anhalt ancestral homeland north of the Harz mountain range around the Ascanian residence of Aschersleben (Ascharia), which he granted town privileges
in 1266.
When in 1315 Henry's grandson
Halberstadt.[2] Though Prince Bernhard II of Anhalt-Bernburg one year later acknowledged the feudal tenure of Halberstadt, Aschersleben was the cause for several conflicts between his successors and the Halberstadt bishops. Nevertheless, it remained part of the diocese, which in 1648 was secularized into the Principality of Halberstadt, and its sovereign possessions, including the rights to Anhalt-Aschersleben, were given to Brandenburg-Prussia
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Princes of Anhalt-Aschersleben 1252–1315
References
- ISBN 9780521521482.
- ISBN 9783319666914.